Three weeks after the Category 5 Hurricane Maria ripped through Dominica, the scope of the damage remains daunting, with islanders in dire need of water, electricity, food and supplies. The United Nations migration agency reported that more than 2,000 Dominicans are still living in shelters while the rest are staying with relatives and friends. Noting that an estimated 23 per cent of the small Caribbean nation’s homes have been flattened, the head of response operations in the Caribbean for the UN International Organization for Migration (IOM) says the IOM has released US$100,000 to scale up shelter response, and an additional US$350,000 has been secured from the UN Central Emergency Response Fund.
